Exam 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life

Imagine that you have just flunked a class. You evaluate this situation and decide that flunking a class is stressful and important enough to be upset about. Next you decide to repeat the class in summer school. You have made __________.

Jonah felt that his biology final was an extremely stressful event, whereas Susan did not. This example illustrates that ________ is crucial in determining whether a given stimulus is stressful.

Gabe puts his other activities on hold so that he can focus on his term paper. Gabe is using the coping strategy known as ________.

REM is an acronym for rapid eye movement.

Describe the body's response to chronic stress in the resistance phase of the general adaptation syndrome.

Actions meant to harm or destroy are referred to as __________.

___________________ is a disorder in which breathing briefly stops during sleep, causing the person to choke, gasp, and momentarily awaken.

Which of the following pairs belong together?

After we have decided that a certain event is a stressor, we must decide how we will deal with it and what resources are available for coping with the stressor. This process is called________.

A conflict in which a person must choose between two undesirable routes to a goal or goals is called__________.

The most common hallucinogen in America is ________.

How might stress assist in the growth of a tumor?

Manifest content is to latent content as ________.

Staying awake when your body's internal clock suggests sleeping can lead to irritability.

Dreaming occurs during NREM sleep.

Burning your toast, having trouble opening an e-mail attachment, breaking a glass, and running late for an appointment are all examples of ___________.

Interpretation of the ________ content of a dream is expected to reveal the ________ content.

Which parts of the nervous system are associated with the general adaptation syndrome?

Positive events cannot function as stressors.

________ psychology is primarily concerned with the promotion of health and the treatment and prevention of illness as it relates to psychological factors.